Ground Up Ventures

Ground Up Ventures is a venture firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups based in the United States and Israel. It describes itself as a generalist investor and says it works closely with founders after investing, rather than staying at a distance. Companies whose founders have commented on working with the firm include EliseAI, Ritual, Portless, Starcloud, Baba, ZeroMark, Covenant and Longmark, spanning areas such as artificial intelligence, health and other sectors referenced by founders describing their own businesses. The firm describes its aim as being seen by founders as an extension of their own team, citing examples such as helping identify a partner who later led a portfolio company's Series E round, and making introductions one founder credits with bringing about more people that company's product could help.